Mop



Maxx'ch 2 1926.

A. H. CROLLY Filed Jan. 2, 1925 TIE. .5.

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ALBERT HENRY CROLLY, OF AU'CKlluklN'lll),4 NEW ZEALAND.

MOP.

Application mea January 2, 1925. serial No. 66.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HENRY Cuon- LY, citizen of the British Empire, residing at 39 Crummer Road, Ponsonby, in the city of Auckland', Dominion of New Zealand, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mops7 of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mops for household use and the like of the type which comprises a body portion provided with a handle, cotton or other material suitable for a mop being` secured to said body portion. The invention has for its object the provision of a simplied and cheap mop of the type described which is light and effective and more easily worked and handled than the heavier type.

The object of the invention is effected by the provision of improved means for securing the mopping material to the body portion of the mop comprising a specially designed band preferably having its edges curved showing a substantially U shape in cross section and designed to avoid wear on the mopping material and for strength said band beingl preferably secured by means such as nails to the underneath edge of said body portion, so as to secure the mopping material between. the metal band and the underneath edge of said body portion.

The body portion is4 provided with a handle of convenient length of the usual kind secured thereto in any suitable manner.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention Figure l is a perspective view of the securing band, Figure 2 is a perspective sectional elevation of the mop, Figure 3 is a section of the mop, Figure 4 is a View of the means for securing the band and mop material to the mop body. The body l of the device is made preferably of wood and preferably circular in plan and has a hole 7 bored in its to take a usual handle in itsecured as usual by means of a nail or screw passing through hole 8 in the body. A preferably metal band 2 preferably circular in plan has rounded or curved edges so as to prevent injury to the mop material 4 and to form a channel 8 to receive snugly the heads 6 of nails These nails 5 are used to secure material l made preferably of cotton of convenient length foruse which is passed over the rounded edges of the band 2 preferably equalrlengths being on each side of the band. This band 2 4is placed evenly round the underneath edge of the body l and is securely fastened thereto by means of the nails 5 which are driven home on the body l.

A special advantage attained by this invention is that the securing of the mop material tothe body portion can be cheaply and rapidly done as follows The band carrying the mop material arranged on it as described is placed over a hollow holder see Figure 4 in the wall of which are vertical holes wherein the nails are inserted head down. The head and band being firmly held by suitable meansv a lever is operated to thrust up rods which push up all the nails home simultaneously through the band into the body thus securing the band and the mop material thereto rapidly on one operation.

Claim:

As an article of manufacture, a mop comprising a head, an inverted channeled annulus, mop strands looped over the annulus and retaining means passing through the annulus and into the head for clamping the strands between the annulus and head.

In testimony whereof he affixes his signature.

ALBERT HENRY GRQLLY. 

